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When Normal Blew Up: The Story of the People Who Died and the People Who Lived On

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When Normal Blew Up: The Story of the People Who Died and the People Who Lived On2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze, True Crime (Nonfiction) "Powerful book thinking about it weeks later." James Crawford, Director, Lakewood Public Library In 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter in the back. He shouted for everyone to leave, he had a bomb. The store owner grabbed the package and ran down the back

2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze, True Crime (Nonfiction)

"Powerful book...thinking about it weeks later." -- James Crawford, Director, Lakewood Public Library

In 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old-fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter in the back. He shouted for everyone to leave, he had a bomb. The store owner grabbed the package and ran down the back hallway. The man chased the owner, grabbed him and struggled to take the package away. A pharmacist saw what was happening, raced after both, and tried to pull the two apart. A clerk was standing at the back door. A bookkeeper was in the back office, unaware. The bomb went off.

Five people died that day, leaving five spouses and fifteen children to grieve in silence and a stunned community to pick up the pieces. Fifty years later, Joni Foster, who was nine at the time and daughter of the pharmacist who died, began a quest to find out in detail who these people were and what exactly happened. Over nine months, she would interview members from each family to hear their stories of what life was like before, what happened that day, and how they moved forward. Most of the people she interviewed had never told their story before to anyone, including members of their own families.

This story is a tragedy, a history lesson on the slow, painful emancipation of women, and ultimately a love story to the families trying to live normal lives.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Raku Press
Published: 02/27/2017
ISBN: 9780998720302
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
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